CHESS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 5

CHESS.

All communications for this department mailt be addressed to the Chess Editor, Mr C. W. Benbow. 'r- . 7 15/6/88 M.R. (Taranaki) —The Melbourne Congress Committee are pressing on with their work, and we have ho doubt they will bring matters to a successful issue. Who the entrants are likely to be.we have no idea ; we; however, are under the impression that there will not be more tjian one'competitor from New Zealand, even .if that.

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. No 911 (J. Dob'rusky.) IRto Q 6 ' 1 Any move 2 Mates accordingly Solved by J.J.M. (Christchurch); H.B. and J.N.H (Wellington) ; R.J.D. (Clyde); 4 Extremely pretty, and the key-move Is by no means easily keen (BJ)’,; M.R. (Carahaki); A.L.T. (Wanganui); O.P.Q. (Foxton), ‘ Neat but not novel (8);,’; D.T.G. (Blenheim); Horace (Patea); T.K. (Pictori); R.J.L. (Palmerston North); H.D. (Bulls); R.P. (Gisborne), Rather ordinary in idea and not .difficult’ of solution (B),’ ap'd Felix (Auckland). This problem must be a very near relation to No 907 by Josef Pospisilr(B). No. 912 (R. J. Deightin).;' Our solvers have shown that this position is doubly unsound//as, in the first place, the author’s intention can be prevented, and in the second place mate .can be given in two moves by 1 R to Kt 3 (ch) etc. - The- conception iB, however, very good, and we expect to present the problem again next week'in a sound form. ’

PROBLEM No. 921. By E. J. Winter-Wood (Croydon).- - Second prize two-mover in tbe ‘ Sheffield In.

dependent .’ Problem Tourney.

- ■ un - •-•!-

WiirTE.

White to play and mate in two moves.

PROBLEM No. 922. By James Sexton (Sandon).

•'« - Black.

' White.

White to play and mate in three moves.

CHESS IN NEW YORK.

r Game played In the pending tourney of the \ New York Chess Club, between Blome and Delmar, the latter giving the odds of Pawn and two moves. Remove Black K BP. White. . ; Black. (Mr Blome.) (Mr Delmar.) IPK4 2PQ 4 2 Q Kt B 3 3 K Kt B 3 (a) 3 P Q 4 4PKS- 4 B Kt 5 5 B K 3 . 5 P K 3 6BK 2 ■ ... 6 Q Q 2 7 Castles 7 K Kt K 2 8 P Q Kt 3 . 8 Kt K B 4 9PKR3- 9B takes Kt 10 B takes B: 10 B K 2 11 BKt 4 - - -1- ll Castles K R 12 B takes Kt 12 R takes B 13 PK B 4 . 13QEKB 14 Kt B 3 < „ . 14 P Q Kt 3 (b) 15 Kt K 2 15 BR 5 16PQ83 . 16 QK 17KR2 v 17KR82 18 Q B 2 18 Kt K 2 19 Q Q 3 (eh) 19 Kt B 4 208Q2 &OPQB4 21 P K Kt 3 21 B Q 22 R K B 3 22 Q Q B 3 (d) 23QRK 3 23 P Q Kt 4 24 BR 24P85 25Q82 r 25 FQ R 4 26 Q Q 2 26 Q Q R 3 27 P takes P 27 Kt P takes P (e) 28 P Kt 4 ’ 28 Kt R 5 - 29 B takes Kt - 29 B takes B 30 PB 5 SO P R 3 31 Kt Kt 3 .. . 31 QQ 3 32 Q K 2 , 32 B takes Kt ch 33 K takes B 33 P takes P 34PK6 ' 34 QKt ch _ 35 K Kt 2 85 R Kt 2 86 Q R B 2 S6PBS 87 P K 7 ’ 37 R K 38 Q K 6 ch 38 K R 39 Q takes P 39 R (Kt 2) takes P 40 Q takes B P 40 Q Kt 2 41PQ5 41 R K 5 42 Q Kt 3 42Q82 48QQ .43 Q Q 3 44QQ2 , 44 PKt 4

45 Q Q 3 45K(KjK4 46PQ84 ' 46 QB 4 47 QKt 3 ''4? 9 ces ? P 4s Q takes Q 48 R takes Q 49RQ 2 49 .? 50 P Q 6 50 R Q 2 51 RQ B 3 52 KBSch ?.? £® • K m : 53RKRS 53KKt2, 34 R Q B 8 54 K B 2 55 RK R 8 ,• 55 KKt 2 56RQ88 56RK6 57 R B 7 57. R takes R 58 P takes R 58 R B 6 50 R Q 7 ch 59K83 60 P Q R 4 60 K K. 3 61RKR7 61 K Q 3 (f) 62 R takes P oh 62 K takes P 63 R R 5 63 KB 4 64 P R 4 64 RB7 ch 65K8 3 65 R B-G ch 66 K K 2 66 P takes P 67 R takes P 67 R K Kt 6 68 P Kt 5 68 K Kt 3 And after a few mare moves - the game was abandoned as drawn. „?• notes. (a) P Q 5 or P K B 4 is usual at this point. (b) With the intention of' advancing the Pawns on the Q side. ■ J (c) If P K Kt 3, Black would reply with Kt B 4. (d) Intending to advance F Q B 5. (e) It is possible that Black might have had a better chance if he had takemwith Q P, and afterward planting Kt on Q 4. (f) It was suggested at tha.i conclusion of the game that Black should have played K K 4, but nothing better than a draw Seemed to result from the analysis, and Mr B, .was not making any mistakes in this game.

THE BERLIN PLEIADS, Having been requested by some of our correspondents to give them further information on the subject of the Berlin Pleiads, we have much pleasure in giving them the following extracts from a very interesting article by the Rev. W. Wayte, which appeared in the British Chess Magazine of 1886 : . •It W as here (the old Berlin Chess Club) that, under Mendheim’s training, the famous group of players were formed, known from their number as the Pleiads, who a few years later raised the Berlin school to a foremost place among the chess centres of Europe. The period from 1837 to 1843 is indicated ty Yon der Lasa in his Chess Recollections as that in which they were at their zenith, culminating with the publication of the Handbuch in the latter year. We do not think' that they produced any individual player quite equal to Labourdonnais at the beginning or Staunton at the close of this period, and their reputation was no doubt less widely diffused, than that of the contemporary French and English champions. But not even Londonjand Paris, so far ns our knowledge of those times extends, could have boasted as many as seven stars of equal magnitude. None of them, it should be added, were chess players and nothing else. They ttere all men of liberal : professions and of Culture, qualified’to adorn' Berlin society at a time when it was much ]eßs’ - tai)itary‘ thari at, present,'and when the "tone was given to it by buck men as' King Frederick’ William IV, Alexander Vo ft "Tfmmbdld't, BiinSeh. Several of them, as will' : bs seen, were really remarkable for their' intellectual - gifts,'' and their varied acquirements. We shall notice them in the order of seniority and then toijoh upon the question, not easy to answer dogmatically, of their comparative chess skill. (To be continued.) _